I Was Christmas Shopping With My Mother-in-Law When I Saw My Husband Holding Another Woman’s Hand—Then She Whispered, “Don’t React. Watch Me.”

But suspicion is not proof.

“I thought about telling you.”

“Why didn’t you?”

“Because I did not want to hand you my anxiety and call it evidence.”

I hated that answer.

I respected it too.

PART 3 — JONATHAN DOES NOT COME TO DINNER

Seven o’clock.

No Jonathan.

Seven-thirty.